Double Booked ⭐

Rehearsing

I woke up the next morning and came face to face with my own living nightmare, Chris Evans was fast asleep. Neither of us crossed the barrier but we were close. I heard the phone ringing and a rolled over and answered it.

"This is your wake-up call Miss Alexander." The lady from the front desk said.

"Thank you, is the small conference room scheduled for me?" I asked.

"It is. Also, there is no vacant rooms yet, but it's not check out time either." She added and I sighed.

"Okay. Thank you." I said and hung up I got out of bed easily, grabbed my leggings, sports bra and tank top to go change. Once I left the room I headed down to the conference room. I knew it was small but I needed to practice the routine I would be made to perform during my auditions. After running through the routine 3 times my cellphone rang.

"Hello?" I answered out of breath.

"Hey, you already rehearsing?" I heard my best friend Marissa ask me as I sat on the floor.

"Yeah...just finished the 3rd run through." I said and she sighed.

"Come on Jen, you are going to crush this audition. You got this." She said and I just rolled my eyes.

"Yeah well this is all I have ever wanted. What do I have if I don't get this? Teaching dance to a bunch of spoiled brats at the local dance school?" I asked and she sighed.

"The pay is good..." Marissa said.

"Right but the parents and their children can be nightmares...kind of like my current roommate." I said mumbling the last part.

"What was that?" She asked.

"Nothing...just know my night was ridiculous." I said and she sighed.

"Well fill me in it later. I have to get to work, good luck...break a leg...whatever just you got this! And this Christmas I will be coming to New York to see my friend as a Radio City Rockette!" Marissa said. I laughed and we hung up. I ran through the routine again and then decided to head to the room to take a shower. Once I reached the room and I unlocked the door and noticed Chris wasn't sleeping but he was in the shower.

"Fuck..." I groaned and sat on the bed and waited for him to come out. When he came out of the bathroom he had a towel wrapped around his waist as I looked up.

"Oh crap...sorry." I said and tried to look away.

"Sorry I didn't know you were going to be in here." Chris said and I shook my head.

"I just got back and was wanting to take a shower but..." I said and motioned to him in his towel and I saw him blush.

"Right...I thought maybe you were trying to get another room." Chris said and I shook my head.

"I was informed on my wake-up call that there was no rooms available yet. I was down in the conference room practicing." I said. Chris grabbed his clothes and went back into the bathroom to change.

"Practice, for what?" Chris asked as he closed the door.

"Uh...I have an audition..." I said knowing I mentioned it last night.

"Right you said that last night. What kind of audition?" Chris asked.

"Dancing." I said.

"Like exotic?" Chris asked and I rolled my eyes.

"No, professional." I said.

"Hey, they are professionals too." Chris said coming out of the bathroom.

"Yeah well I highly doubt any of them went to Julliard for dance." I said and Chris looked at me shocked.

"Oh wow..." Chris said and I half smiled with a nod.

"Yeah so I have been teaching dance in my hometown for awhile but my friends and family heard about an open casting call for the Radio City Rockettes and signed me up so I would have to come." I said and Chris smiled leaning against the wall.

"Okay well sorry for saying exotic because now I'm starting to think this might be harder." Chris said and I nodded with a small laugh.

"It is. I'm going to go shower..." I said standing up and going to go past him but stopped and grabbed my clothes from my bag taking them in with me.

"I was going to order breakfast, you want anything?" Chris asked.

"Just some fruit please, I cant eat anything heavy." I said and he nodded as I walked into the bathroom.

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After my shower, breakfast was sitting on the table and Chris was sitting there with a script in his hands and groaned.

"I'm never going to be able to do this..." Chris groaned not seeing me.

"The great Chris Evans having issues with lines?" I asked, he chuckles seeing me.

"This one yes. I was just given this script 3 days ago. Last minute audition." He said and I sat at the table.

"I'm no actress, fair from it but I can help you run lines. Only if you want." I said and he smiled at me.

"That would help actually." Chris said and handed me the script.

"I read as Mandy right?" I asked making a joke and he nodded.

"Come on Nate, we can work this out."

"I don't think so Mandy, we have gone over this time and time again. We are two different people from two different worlds. I can't fit into your life and you don't want to try and fit into mine. This is it, this is all we have."

"Nate...please..."

"I'm sorry Mandy."

"Nate! Kiss me! Kiss me and prove that we cant work this out!"

Before I knew what was happened Chris was kissing me, passionately. I involuntarily moaned into the kiss. Chris placed a hand gingerly on my cheek as his tongue skimmed the seem of my lips but before I could bring myself to let him in, I pulled away.

"Sorry, shit, Jen I'm sorry." Chris said and I shook my head trying to calm my rapidly beating heart.

"No, it's fine. Totally fine." I said. I noticed we couldn't make eyes contact.

"Do you want to run another scene or...?" I asked and he shook his head.

"No, this is the one we are running in the audition." Chris said.

"If you need we can run it again..." I said and he shook his head.

"No, I think I got it now. Thank you." Chris said and stood up finishing the last drink of orange juice in his glass.

"I have to go meet with my manager and then get to my audition. Thanks for running lines Jen." Chris said putting on his jacket.

"No problem. Good luck at the audition." I said as he reached the door. He turned around and smiled at me.

"Thanks and break a leg at yours." Chris said and I smiled. He walked out and I sighed placing my head in my hands.

"What the fuck just happened?" I asked out loud.